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The Message 

OF 

OT,D 
GLORY 

BY 

GEORGE A. SAHLIN 






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THE MESSAGE OF 



OLD GLORY 



BY 



GEORGE A. SAHLIN 



DEDICATED TO THE PATRIOTIC 
MEN AND WOMEN OF AMERICA 



COPYRIGHTED 1917 BY GEO. A. SAHLIN 









THE CALL OF LIBERTY 

Born in the womb of the spirit eternal, 

Liberty lives in the hearts of mankind; 
Dreaming in righteousness of life super- 
nal, 
Groping in darkness that dream-life to 
find. 
Deep in the hearts of the mothers of races, 
Deep in the souls of the fathers of all, 
Dwells there a spirit that shines in their 
faces — 
Patriots, everywhere, answering the 
call. 
What is this call that the whole world is 
heeding? 
Whence came this quick'ning, with 
brave hearts aflame? 
'Tis Liberty calling, most urgently plead- 
ing 
For action, for vict'ry in God's holy 
name. 



JUL 21 1917 

©CI,A467910 



A FOREWORD 

A servant of the Spirit have I been, lo, 

these many years, 
And never once have I believed the Christ 

to teach 
However monstrous be the wrong that 

raised its head 
And cried — ''Make way, that I may reign 

supreme," 
It should, unresisted, be allowed to gain 

its mark 
And slay, without compunction, all that 

is divine 
Within the human heart of God-aspiring 

man. 
Give ear, O, ye peoples, to the message 

of Old Glory. 



THE MESSAGE 

The Cross, appealing 'midst the babel of 

all earthly woe, 
Doth show the way that human feet must 

tread, e'er man, on common ground 
Be raised in understanding as to why his 

fellows, here below 
Should pray — 'Thy will be done on earth 

as it is done in heav'n." 

'Tis simply this, — the hungry feed, the 
naked clothe. 

The sickly visit, the dead raise up unto 
new life 

That earth again should be renewed in 
spirit; — 

That the lowly, with new courage pro- 
claim, 'The Lord is here." 



The Lord is here; and battling for His 
own, is here 

Upon a soil made sacred by the sacrifice 
of those 

Who, in an ancient day, led by a Wash- 
ington 

Implanted a new order for the good of 
man. 

And with the Cross, its teaching true that 

man for man must die 
If, ever, from the ashes of his hopes a 

new day might arise. 
The Stars and Stripes unto the breezes 

pure, 'neath heav'n's bluest sky. 
And flaming stars, were flung in prophesy 

sublime; — 



That henceforth, guided by the love of a 

great heart, 
Protection should afford to all ; — to every 

soul 
Who would on high lift up its folds, that 

never, 
In the days to be, should liberty from the 

earth expire. 

The Cross, the Flag, they two are one; 

for from the Cross 
There came a light as never seen on earth 

before; 
And from the Flag a spirit, born of Him 

who died that, 
In righteousness, on earth mankind be 

free. 



Ah, what are flags but the expression of 

a faith 
That in the fiery crucible of life is 

tried; 
Proud shadows of a dream, refined as 

tho' by fire. 
Proclaiming hopes that as yet are unat- 

tained. 

And what is patriotism, but a love still 
incomplete 

That seeks to hold and spread a faith im- 
perfect, — yet 

So far as mankind hath attained, without 
the urge of heav'n, 

Of brotherhood divine, leads on to earth- 
ly glory. 



Yea, e'en the Flag we love, baptized in 

fire and blood, 
By Providence sustained, without a stain 

victorious, 
Anew must lead a mighty host upon a 

foreign soil 
To victory; — a victory that God alone 

can grant. 

They unto whom the Cross hath precious 
been — 

To whom Old Glory now enshrines with- 
in its folds 

The aspirations of a fighting, dying world, 
let them 

The ravages of hell oppose with life and 
limb, with heart and soul. 



Oppose with treasure such as hell cannot 
afford; 

Not gold alone, but all that heart and 
brain can give, — 

Such treasure as the Christ revealed 
when dying on the Cross, 

To lose one's life is life to win, the broth- 
erhood to gain. 

Among the flags on foreign soil, amid the 

flags of other lands. 
Beside the flag of Lafayette, in conflict 

dire. 
The Stars and Stripes alone appears as 

from them all 
Constant to its dream of liberty, and 

brotherhood divine. 



The Cross, ah, yes, the Cross comes after 

the Flag has cheered 
The wavering heart to battle, before 

man's fading eyes is held 
Reminding him of work that's been well 

done, the promise of a 
Life and peace unending in the silent 

spheres beyond. 

The Flag it doth religion teach, for unity 
it flies, 

In face of every foe it hath a message 
true; 

For every one who loves the Christ that 
message is — 

"To its ideals be true, keep it afloat, de- 
fend it to the end." 



ENVOY 

God gave you America, its Washington 
and Lafayette, 

Its Lincoln, and God gave you victory 

For human right divine in its last word; 

God gave you Old Glory, and a Christ 
who, by example, 

Calls on every soul to bear that flag, un- 
stained, to every battle front 

Where hell would have its will and Christ 
overthrow. 



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